People have different levels of motivation regardless of income. Some of the best examples of this are teachers and healthcare workers, who often have highly skilled, highly difficult labor and relatively poor pay. Independent of the renumeration, people who have the motivation to work will work. If all jobs payed equally, much of the labor of society would still be completed, but instead of having a profit-motive to complete work that pays well people would be incentivized to take up labor which they find personally fulfilling and are therefore more invested in completing well. However, this does leave jobs like waste disposal and mining under fulfilled, so it has been suggested that such undesirable jobs receive greater renumeration. An alternative to unequal pay based on job popularity would be a system known as ParEcon (participatory economics) where the average social value of every laborer's contribution must be equal (necessitating that they perform tasks which are less desirable in order to balance their time spent performing preferred tasks). Under a system like this, payment equity would be possible.
People have different levels of motivation regardless of income. Some of the best examples of this are teachers and healthcare workers, who often have highly skilled, highly difficult labor and relatively poor pay. Independent of the renumeration, people who have the motivation to work will work. If all jobs payed equally, much of the labor of society would still be completed, but instead of having a profit-motive to complete work that pays well people would be incentivized to take up labor which they find personally fulfilling and are therefore more invested in completing well. However, this does leave jobs like waste disposal and mining under fulfilled, so it has been suggested that such undesirable jobs receive greater renumeration. An alternative to unequal pay based on job popularity would be a system known as ParEcon (participatory economics) where the average social value of every laborer's contribution must be equal (necessitating that they perform tasks which are less desirable in order to balance their time spent performing preferred tasks). Under a system like this, payment equity would be possible.